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Awesome, thanks very much for the feedback Fran, appreciated!

Thanks for your help guys - What I was looking at was a little detail around how you would install the actual hearth, as in, would you literally just sit it there under its own weight or would you dot and dab some mortar under it to keep it firm at all? Also, I guess it needs to be very much...

You are absolutely right sorry fella - I will get these posted to you guys tonight. It's been a mad week :) Thanks again for all the advice so far.

That would be a good idea normally, but I was looking to sand the original floorboards, so that's gonna be a no I'm afraid. Do you think I can achieve a similar result by installing some bridging in between joists or should I not bother? Mind you, like you say the bouncing is not a huge bother...

Thanks for your responses fellas. Full joist length/span is probably about 4 meters (I'll measure more precisely this evening) and I think joists are about 70mm wide with a pretty standard gap of around 400mm. Any idea how I can get around the bounce? At a bit of a loss to be honest! Thanks...

Morning all! I'm refurbishing a house (as you'll probably know due to my sheer presence on this forum as of late!) and I need to now source and install two hearths for two non working fireplaces (show-only, in the two upstrairs bedrooms). My question to you is - I've never done this before, do...

Hi guys, Hope all is well :) I am refurbishing a property and one of the floors is quite bouncy on an upstairs room. I've already taken all carpets out and therefore managed to lift a few floorboards to see what the state of the joists is. The joists seem in good enough condition, although it...

Thanks newboy and princeofdarkness, Some really good advice. I think it will be a case of completely redoing the floor in due course, but that may mean having to wait a little longer than I originally intended, which is a slight annoyance. Anyway, thank you that gives me lots of thinking...

Trying not to break anything...

Hi guys, Hope you're all in good form :) My latest project in the house is leveling (and then covering with laminate flooring) my garage concrete floor. I think the best bet would be leveling compound as it's pretty uneven in parts. I have a couple of problems though: (Please see pictures...

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I obviously don't have one handy otherwise I would have done :roll:

Hi all, Last night I went up into my loft and noticed something odd. Take into account the loft is half boarded with standard mixed floorboards, half chipboard, and other bits. As soon as I came up the hatch, I saw a floorboard had literally sprung up and bent upward. My first thought was...